Do your users’ virtual desktops spark joy? If not, it might be time to right-size your VDI. There are many compelling reasons to implement VDI. Placing multiple users on the same host can make hardware use more efficient and lower...

By Chizuru Tominaga, Marketing Manager, Lakeside Japan Citrix XenDesktop is a dedicated software solution for configuring virtual environments. While virtualization can apply to several areas, including the virtualization of servers, storage, as well as networks, XenDesktop is specifically designed for...

Ease of endpoint management vs. end-user satisfaction is a classic IT tradeoff. Modern users demand flexible workspaces but meeting those expectations can be a real challenge given the complexity of managing an environment rich with a variety of devices and...

Within every innocuous enterprise workstation exists untapped potential for savings and better system performance. Over a decade of working on large-scale desktop transformation projects, I’ve seen a gradual erosion in price point to supply a managed desktop to a user...

Dedicated GPUs aren't just for gamers and designers anymore. The modern workspace is experiencing increasingly vivid and interactive software that is challenging entrenched beliefs about the nature of corporate work. Back in the day, IT supplied users with hardware and...

A constantly changing landscape in the modern workplace has led to a constantly changing landscape in the technology that serves that workplace. Over the last few years, we’ve seen a clear shift away from local storage of data and apps...

One of the unintuitive results of the progression of technology is the massive proliferation of different sources for different pieces of information that are critical to managing an environment. There are just so many tools that provide a depth of...

When NVIDIA first announced their groundbreaking approach to introducing accelerated graphics to virtualization they began bridging one of the last gaps in making sure that users get the best possible experience with virtual desktops and applications. Building on their success...

The web browser has come into its own as an indispensable part of the enterprise software portfolio. With web based apps an amazing amount of flexibility can be achieved, but paradoxically one of the ubiquitous and useful applications can also...

Back in August, Citrix announced the long awaited Citrix Workspace Cloud technology along with the associated Lifecycle Management tools . The blogs by my friends Kailas Jawadekar and Joe Vaccaro explain these stacks in detail, but here's the gist the...

One of the greatest advantages of the growing influx of cloud based solutions is the opportunity to move IT to be service oriented. The ability to take advantage of consumption based models for everything from infrastructure all the way through...

What do these two topics have in common? More than you might think… I spent the majority of my career in professional services and product management in the software industry. Every product lifecycle follows the established pattern of "Assess, Design,...